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News Release from: Anadigm | Subject: FPAA development kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 December 2004
Kit cuts the cost of analogue array
development
Anadigm is lowering the price of its full-featured field programmable analogue array (FPAA) development kit, including development licence, to just $199.
Anadigm is lowering the price of its full-featured field programmable analogue array (FPAA) development kit, including development licence, to just $199 Representing a $300 saving, the new pricing will allow designers to try out FPAAs in their applications and move directly to production without paying any additional licensing fees
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Anadigm - formerly Anadyne Microelectronics - has launched a development and evaluation board for field programmable analogue arrays (FPAAs).
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"Whatever the application area - audio, industrial, medical, or anywhere else that analogue interfaces are required - now there's another good reason to try FPAAs", said Bill McLean, CEO at Anadigm.
"More than ever, designers owe it to themselves to experience all the benefits of software-controlled analogue, from ease of design to the introduction of new capabilities made possible by dynamic reconfiguration".
Anadigm FPAAs are being used by a wide range of customers to replace discrete components and ASICs in real-world interfaces, where the devices greatly reduce the length of design cycles while bringing analogue functions under digital control.
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Dynamically reconfigurable FPAAs allow on-the-fly, real-time control of analogue functions by the microprocessor in an embedded system, giving the designer the flexibility to implement new features such as auto-ranging and auto-calibration, and also to have the device change functionality sequentially over time to support multiple operating modes.
Statically reconfigurable FPAAs require a reset before reloading a new configuration bitstream.
The AnadigmVortex development system includes AnadigmDesigner2 CAD software and a development board that provides a simple mechanism for evaluation, debugging, and initial test of an FPAA.
With its small footprint, the board can even be used for prototyping in some cases.
Development board features include an AN221E04 FPAA with header pins, a serial interface, four uncommitted external op-amp circuits, a 16MHz oscillator module, and a large breadboard area for building customer-specific interface circuitry.
Multiple boards can be daisychained, allowing designers to evaluate multiple-FPAA systems.
Although the development board is supplied with an AN221E04 FPAA, designers can use the board with the latest version of the AnadigmDesigner2 software and any FPAA in the AnadigmVortex family.
The AnadigmVortex development system is available for order from the Anadigm website.
Pricing for the FPAA family of silicon products ranges from $3.15 to $7.69 in 10,000-piece quantities.
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